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Uiiderskle. F.-w. Costa pale brown with a whitish speck and 

 a small black streak at base. Cell pale dull scarlet, a rounded 

 black spot near middle close to subcostal followed by a more or 

 less V-shaped spot, its apex towards base. The subapical spots are 

 cream colour dusted proximally with reddish yellow and the 

 space between them and the cell is blackish. The apex and 

 hind margin is brownisli ochreous, striated by black nervulu 

 ends and black internervular rays, each of the hitter being 

 swollen out just before margin and enclosing a whitish streak. 

 The base of 2, lb and la is brownish ochreous, the central 

 portion pale dull scarlet and there is a black spot between tlie 

 brown and the red in 2 and lb, and a second, subbasal spot in 

 the latter area close against the median. The outer edge of the 

 reddish portion is separated from the marginal border by a 

 blackisli suffusion. 



H.-w. base greenish grey with black spots, of which there are 

 one in 9 and 8, two in 7 about 3 mm. apart enclosing a brownish 

 mark, one near base of area 6, one at base of 5 more or less con- 

 fluent with a discocellular spot, and sometimes with a terminal 

 spot in cell, though this may be absent. Two spots in cell, the 

 outermost followed by a brownisli mark, a dot at extreme base 

 of 2. A basal and two other spots in Ic, the latter enclosing a 

 brownish mark, two spots in lb and la and some black at bases 

 of nervures. Central band as above but paler. Marginal half 

 of wing brownish ochreous striated by the black nervules and by 

 internervular lilack rays, each of which is bifurcated a short 

 distance from margin, and encloses a whitish somewhat shuttle- 

 shaped streak. 



Head black with a few whitish dots, thorax black, abdomen 

 black above with yellowish segmental lines and lateral spots. 

 Claws une(|ual. 



$ . Expanse about 67 mm. F.-w. greyish black. The paler 

 markings in f.-w. shaped as in male but white instead of scarlet 

 and yellow, the streak in cell not reaching to base. Indications 

 of black spots more readily seen on underside, in cell, 2, and la, 

 as in (J . H.-w\ base with a slight blackish suffusion the edge of 

 which is not well defined as in ^ . Some black basal spots 

 corresponding to those on underside. A central white band, 

 double the width of that in ^ , remainder of wing greyish black 

 with some indication of the striation of tlie underside. 



Underside f.-w. like the upperside but slightly brownish at 

 base, the black V-shaped spot at end of cell very broad and 

 the spot at base of 2 and those in lb much larger than in ^ . 

 Apex and marginal border pale grey striated as in ^ . H.-\v., 



